The man was riding his bicycle about 11 a.m. on the Thun Trail
near the Bertolet Fishing Dock in West Reading when the boys knocked him
off his bicycle and pinned him against a fence in an apparent robbery
attempt, police said.Two of the boys were assaulting the man when he pulled a handgun and shot them, police said.Julias
Johnson, a 16-year-old on probation, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other